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Take advantage of these camping tips and hacks that are a beginner’s guide on using essentials you can find at home to make family camping easy on budget. Find free printable checklist, recyclable projects, food ideas, safety tips, camping games, and dollar store ideas. Have you ever planned to go for a summer camping trip with your family and friends? Does the thought overwhelm you? Me too! Therefore, I decided to bring to you these amazing tips and hacks I found super useful when I was clueless about where to start!
If you are a camper and love to camp and outdoor adventures excite you, you are bound to love these genius ideas. These camping tips and hacks are the best ideas you can incorporate in your trip without spending a lot. However, there are many great outdoor experience camping gears that are perfect and one must buy. Therefore, by saving bucks on simple and smaller essentials the trip becomes for resourceful.
The following is the list of camping essential gears and ordinary items that you can use to replace them:
1. Use a DIY flotation device or cork to hold keys. You will never lose your keys in the river again!
2. Create a pack of dip/peanut butter and veggies in container for on -the-go.
3. Roll duct tape on the lighter instead of carrying a huge roll of it to camping.
4. Fill your nalgene with boiling water and throw in your sleeping bag for the ultimate cuddle buddy.
5. Use tic tac containers to carry spices.
6. Freeze up pancake batter in zip lock bags for the best breakfast ever.
7. Take a vegetable peeler and a bar of soap and you’ve eliminate the good old messy soap dilemma.
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Use fruits instead of marshmallows for kids for easy and mess free fun. Using air bags instead of mattress is easy to prepare, use and take back after camping.
Plus a few more great tips from kids activities blog.
Really Useful Camping Tricks and Hacks for Families
Use foam floor tiles in the tent to make for space need and useable comfortable setting. Foam Floor tiles are also handy to use as base for sleeping on the floor. It also reduces the cold from the ground to reach you for a comfortable sleep. Great to use with sleeping bags as well.
This gear line will organize all your essentials in one place. You can find these at dollar store.
Make your own tent using these great DIY tent ideas. Lots of creative ideas to excite the kids.
Carrying knives for camping is challenging. Use PVC pipe and caps to make knife holder. Glue the cap on one end and keep one end open. Mark the open end using marker so you know where it opens. Another great idea is to keep Swiss knife handy while traveling and camping.
Camping hacks and tips you wish you knew earlier
Beware of these dangerous wild plants and learn more about them.
How To Avoid Poison oak Plant While Camping
Use straws to make single pack antibiotic shots. Keep them in an opaque container like first aid box to prevent from sunlight.
Use individual coffee filter bags to make single serve coffee or tea pouches for camping.
 DIY Garden Stakes at Night using candles and sticks.
Pancake mix, hamburgers, fries, tortillas, buns, steaks, eggs, pasta, peanut butter, marshmallow, milk, fruit, juice, cheese are a must have for camping.
Top Ten Foods For Family Camping
 Reuse Prescription Bottles for saving small items for camping.
Keeping the tent clean and bug free requires some careful movement in and out of the tent. Once your tent is up, try to keep it zipped up. Minimize entrance and exits to priorities only. Keep a hand broom and dustpan handy for quick wipe out. A hand held vacuum is also effective if you are a neat freak. Use a bug spray to kill any bugs that entered the tent at least 2 hours before you sleep. Make sure you keep the vents open so that the chemical doesn’t stay in!
Use pool noodles at the base of your tent strings to make them visible. This will avoid tripping over and keep you safe.
A gallon a water with a headlamp pointing into the water makes a good night lamp for outdoor adventures.
Make Reading Lamp for night Camping
Use bags to fill pancake batter and add a nozzle for easy dispensing.
Easy Pancake Mix Batter Dispenser
Line a pie iron with foil and use it to grill your sandwiches and cook other camp foods. Genius yet so simple idea!
Use this door hanging organizer for organizing all the supplies for camping in one place.
Brilliant Camp Kitchen Organizer
DIY anti-itch sticks are perfect for treating the discomfort of pesky bug bites. And are easy to use for adults and kids alike.
Tic tac spice containers take less space in packing and are perfect for on the move.
Plus find more Spice storage solutions at craftionary
Games and activities you can print for kids to keep them entertained in slow hours.
Outdoor scavenger hunt printable
Both these lists are very useful so I am sharing them for you to choose which one better suits you.
Camping pack list:
50 things to pack for your camping trip
Printable Camping essentials checklist
There’s a lot of camping stuff you can find at dollar store and save money. A trip to dollar store is a must before making the move to the wilderness.
Solar light and a pot makes perfect light centerpiece for campers.
Lastly I leave you with a nice collection of camping hacks and tips from ordinary traveler. These are not ideas using home essentials but are a good read.
Please note some links have broken overtime and I have removed them and updated the post with some new handy tips and hacks. I hope you will find these tips, tricks and hacks for camping useful. Start planning smartly and have fun!
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